Medical Xpress January 15, 2025
Frank Otto, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool called MISO (Multi-modal Spatial Omics) can detect cell-level characteristics of cancer by looking at data from extremely small pieces of tissue—some as small as 400 square micrometers, equivalent to the width of five human hairs.

Constructed by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the tool analyzes reams of data and can apply insights to even the smallest spots on . It could guide doctors to the individual therapies that work best for a variety of cancers, according to a new paper detailing MISO that was published today (Jan. 15) in Nature Methods.

Using MISO, the researchers discovered new information about a variety of different cancers using data and...

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